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This chapter takes place in the Spring, after their birthday, after Christmas. A few months down the line. Maybe March or April. Also Flashback city because certain things I don't want to explain in detail that I would have to if they are not flashbacks.

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Everything is going decently for the family. They decided to go to counseling as a family just to make sure that everyone was coping with everything. They decided to have Rachel go to individual therapy to help deal with the trauma of it all after a series of outbursts. One in particular made them decide that therapy was necessary.

Flashback 1:

Katja had gone up to check on Rachel one afternoon. Rachel hadn't come down in a while and she wanted to be sure that she was ok. She heard a crash in the bathroom and ran in.

"Rachel, are you alright?"

"I'm fine all I did was drop the shampoo."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, god my dads never came in the bathroom while I was in the shower. Do you like peeping on teenage girls?"

"Rachel!"

"Seriously, I mean come on this is crap. Why the Hell are you so nosy?" Katja shook her head and walked out knowing that this could happen. She decided to talk to her after she had time to cool down. While Rachel is going to have outbursts she needs to know that it is not ok to attack people and make such brutal accusations. Katja knew this was only the start of many outbursts.

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Flashback 2:

It was one of those hard days. Rachel was being difficult and Demetri was slowly losing his patience and temper. Katja had taken Brittany to go to dance and spend some mother daughter time together. It was important for them to make sure Brittany knew she wasn't being replaced. They knew that Brittany didn't feel that way but they wanted to be sure.

Demetri finally snapped after he couldn't figure out what was eating at Rachel, "Rachel go to your room until your mom and sister get home please."

"No, I don't want to."

"RACHEL NOW!" Rachel whimpered at the raised voice and ran upstairs. This just solidified her thoughts.

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Later that night Katja and Brittany walked in. Katja walked up and gave Demetri a kiss on the cheek. "Where's Rachel?"

Demetri sighed, "Britt can you go to your room please?" He saw the look on Brittany's face, "Don't worry it's nothing bad I just need to talk to your mom and then we need to talk to Rachel. Everything is fine." Brittany nodded though she was unsure about everything. She skipped upstairs and went to her room.

Katja sat down next to her husband on the couch. "What happened? Is she okay?"

"Yeah she's fine it was just a long day. She was acting out all day. Just little things, but they added up. I got frustrated and raised my voice when she wouldn't go to her room like I asked. She whimpered and ran up to her room. She hasn't come out since. I figured we should go talk to her."

"Okay babe, come on." They got up and hand in hand went up to Rachel's room. Katja gently knocked on the door. "Rach? Sweetie? Can we come in?"

With a quiet reply Katja and Demetri walked into the room. Demetri sat in Rachel's desk chair while Katja sat down on the edge of the bed. She reached her hand up and gently rubbed Rachel's back.

"What's wrong baby? It's not like you to act out like that." Rachel's reply was muffled by the pillow she had her face buried in. "Sweetie you've got to move your face out of the pillow so I can understand you."

Rachel turned her head and with teary eyes looked up, "Do you guys really want me?"

Both Demetri and Katja were shocked, "What!"

"Do you really want me or am I just here because the state said you had to take me? Is it because you felt obligated?"

Katja immediately pulled Rachel to her as Demetri made his way to the bed. "Never, ever think that your father and I don't want you. No one made us take you. We love you more than anything. We want you here. You're our daughter and I can't tell you enough how sorry I am that you're going through this."

"Sweetie your mom and I want you in our lives. You're our daughter and parents take care of their kids. If you want to see it as an obligation we're also obligated to take care of Brittany. We don't see it that way though. We love you both so much and you are always welcomed in this house. Understand?" Rachel nodded and curled into Katja. Katja lay down on Rachel's bed and stayed with her as she slept. Demetri left to make dinner. They decided after this that they would get Rachel some counseling. Apparently she's been hiding the fact that she still has issues with everything that's gone on in the past year.

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The family was at their weekly session. The counselor was sitting at her desk and was just looking at them. Finally she took a breath and addressed Rachel.

"I have a feeling as though there's still a big issue that hasn't been addressed yet."

"No, everything's been brought up." Rachel looked at her somewhat panicked.

"Rachel, the way you just reacted to what I said proves that there's a huge skeleton in the closet so to speak. If you want to be able to move past this you need to bring it up."

Rachel looked at her lap and quietly asked, "Why?"

"I just told you th…"

"I mean why did it take so long? Why didn't anyone try harder?"

"Why did what take so long?"

"Finding me," Rachel turned towards her parents, "did you not really want to find me?"

"We tried I swear we did, we never stopped looking. We never gave up."

"That's been bugging me too. Rachie's lived in Lima with those men her whole life. She went to school with me and danced with me. You guys saw her at the recitals and concerts. How did you not know?"

"We always suspected, but we could never get close to her, to you. The Berry's always showed up right before and left immediately after." Demetri said.

"That's true."

"I promise had we known we would have done something much sooner. We never stopped. To this day we don't know how they managed to get you out of the hospital after it was put on lockdown."

"Pap…, Jason, was a doctor." Everyone nodded realizing they could have hid her until the lockdown was over.

"I'm not going to pretend that I'm still not confused about why it took so long, but I'm starting to understand that you couldn't necessarily do anything. It might just take some time. I'm sorry can we go home now?"

"I really think we should talk about this more obviously it's crossed the minds of more than one of you."

"No, I think Rachel's right. This is a lot to take in. I don't think pushing the topic will make it any easier. We need time to process everything and work it out just between us. Come on girls, you can call Quinn and Santana when we get home and have them come over if you want." They all stood up and moved towards the door.

"Wait, I really think we need to talk about this and who are Quinn and Santana?"

"They are the girls' best friends and girlfriends. We'll talk about this next week but right now we need to go home. This can be next week's topic." Demetri ushered his family out the door and they left.

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It was around 3 o'clock, the same afternoon. Even though it was March, it was a nice warm day. Quinn was lying with Rachel in a hammock in the backyard. Santana and Brittany were inside getting iced tea and lemonade. Katja was cleaning the kitchen since the girls were not doing any schoolwork today and Demetri was at work. She was glad that the morning was finished, but her intuitions were telling her that today was that day that she's been dreading for a long while now.

Just then there was a knock on the door. Katja left the kitchen and answered it. "Can I help you?"

"Hi, Mrs. Pierce we're members of Brittany's old glee club."

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